Word: sovereignity
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Argentine withdrew from the League in 1920 after motion to admit all sovereign nations to membership was defeated by the Assembly of the League...
...family of Muhammed Ali, the founder of the present dynasty. Education is made free and obligatory for both sexes. All power is derived from the people and the legislative power is to be exercised conjointly by King and Parliament. The King and the Court did not, however, wish the Sovereign to be the sort of king " who reigns but does not govern." They held the constitution up for some time by claiming that the legislative power should be solely with the monarch and that he should in no way be responsible to Parliament. In the face of public opinion...
...made the government of the pashalik (territory governed by a Pasha) of Egypt hereditary in the family of Muhammed Ali, with the Turkish title of Vali (Viceroy). On June 12, 1867, the Sultan of Turkey authorized the change from Vali to the Persian-Arabic of Khedive, meaning prince or sovereign. This title was kept until 1914, when on December 19 the British deposed Abbās Hilmi because he supported the Kaiser, and installed Hussein Kāmil, the eldest living prince of the Muhammed Ali family, as Sultan of Egypt, thereby marking an end to the subjection of Egypt...
Mohammed VI, deposed Sultan, issued (from Cairo) a proclamation to the Moslem world calling upon it to ignore the decree of the Angora Assembly separating the office of Caliph (successor to the prophet) from that of Sultan (sovereign). He further declared himself still to be both Sultan and Caliph, and asserted that in fleeing from Constantinople he was following a precedent set by the Prophet, who fled from his enemies in Mecca to his friends in Medina...
...ways of Senator Borah's mind are devious and hard to follow. He has long believed that recognition of Soviet Russia by the United States is the sovereign cure for all world ills. In the course of time he has rolled up a considerable following, mostly among the ladies. To such a body Secretary Hughes has just been obliged to make one of his periodic explanations as to why the government did not recognize Russia. With his customary courtesy he repeated the facts that Russia has repudiated international agreements, has confiscated private property has vowed to carry into all other...